The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-12
Notes and Opinions.

NOtcS anu UplnlOHSs
THE new civil service rules have been
approved by the President This was
easy to do.
GLADSTONE is reported willing to
modify his home-rule scheme somewhat
to promote the reunion of the liberal
party.
UNFAvORABLE news from the South
eft is reported that Miss Winnie
Davis proposes to adopt literature as a
profession"
THE "war" between Mr.. Atkins of
the argus and Mr. Chase of the Lyndon
Union continues. No casualties on
either side as yet.
THE fund contributed by individuals
to Mrs. Logan at last accounts had
reached $4,000, of which amount
Chicago had given about $4,000.
NATIONAL banks whose circulation
is based on non-interest-bearin bonds
are to be given ten days more in which
to replace their matured securities.
MINISTER PHELPS served up two
Vermont turkeys at his Christmas din
ner in London. This is the first strictly
American thing he has done.-Hart-
ford Post.
PERHAPS it may be well enough to
remark, in parenthesis as it were, that
the Burchard powder is the kind of
powder which, once burned, cannot be
used again Tribune.
IT is said that Senator Evarts will OPP
pose the interstate commerce bill on
the ground that it is in violation of ar
ticle thirty of the treaty of Washington,
which relates to the conveyance of
merchandise in bond.
A MEMORIAL has been received at
Washington on behalf of the Northern
Pacific protesting against the interstate
commerce bill. 1t assumes that the
bill will injure American roads and
benefit those of Canada.
THE senate has passed bill to give
Mrs. Logan a pension of $4,000. There
were speeches in opposition from the
confederate brigadiers, Maxey and
Berry, but when the vote was called no
opposition vote was heard.
"THE death of Logan makes the re-
nomination of Blaine inevitable. y
Clipper, and several other papers in the
same strain. We can't see it,
NeWport Cypress. The reason you
can't see it is because you don't want
to see it.
A SENSATION was created in London
by the rumor that several weeks ago,
Just as Turkey was about to sign a
treaty with Russia, England threatened
to make war, and to begin by lombard
ing Constantinople from the fleet. An
alliance was thus prevented.
ALARM was created at the Jackson
Club banquet at Columbus, Ohio, Fri
day night, by ex-senator Thurman's
becoming stupefied and suddenly fall
ing to the floor. Speeches were sus-
pended and every one left their seats,
| but the trouble was not serious.
New YORK's business men protest
against the passage of the interstate
commerce bill and favor the appro
priation of 30,000,000 for coast de-
fences. Protests against the interstate
commerce bill have also been made by
boards of trade in Boston and Cincin
natl.
IT is now believed that the democrats
mean to prevent the election of sen
ator in Indiana at this session of thu
legislature. Governor Gray, who is {
democrat, will then appoint one fol
two years. The state senate has re
fused to meet with the house to canvass
votes.
THE best writers on railroad manage
ment think the short-haul and anti
pooling features of the conference in
terstate commerce bill will greatly EN-
barrass the companies and will be NOR
likely to result in increasing local rate
than in diminishing them.-Rutlon'
Herald.
The senatorial contest in New Yor
is waxing warm. The two leading can
didates, Senator Warner Miller an
Levi p. Morton, appear to be almos
evenly matched, while the friends O
Congressman Hiscock are urging hi
| election as the only friendly settlement
, of the controversy.
THERE can no longer be any doub
of the hopeless lunacy of Senator Jone
of Florida. He has announced his il
l tention of being candidate for II
l election. A man who, with such
: record, can hope that anybody will vot
, to keep him in Office must be madde
than King Lear.-COncord Monitor.
AN edition of Mr. Blaine's speeche
G in congress, containing also large 81
e lection of those addressed to politics
s meetings Gncludng selections froI
n those delivered in his presidential can
= paign of lSS4), together with his diplC
matte dispatches, which outline tn
s South American policy and discus